Stupid Australian $

[STL]

Our tourism/hospitality and export industries should be smiling atm though.

If the market is at all inclined to take a holiday at this time...

EDIT:

66c in early morning trade. Fellow collectors, I believe, we are proverbially $#@!ed.

[lcz128]

man... I think I may sit on an RK order for the time being <_<

[sifun]

We should tell Robotkingdom to trade in aussie dollars.

[i_amtrunks]

Our tourism/hospitality and export industries should be smiling atm though.

American and Euopean based travellers don't have the money to travel, since their markets have taken a bigger hit than ours. However the Asia based Travellers will be laughing!

US$0.65 is still better than the US$0.50 we had back at the turn of the millennium, don't know about Transformers but it was still slightly cheaper to buy DBZ stuff from the US back then!

However my plans to order stuff from overseas for Chrissy presents this year is going down the gurgler... Since Paypal takes so long to clear payments, my Alt Wheeljack ended up costing me about $15 extra than it did when I actually bought it.

[jaydisc]

Since Paypal takes so long to clear payments, my Alt Wheeljack ended up costing me about $15 extra than it did when I actually bought it.

Just FYI, in case you haven't been following some of the other Paypal threads, you can avoid this delay simply by attaching a credit card (or Visa/MC debit card), even if you don't use it.

[i_amtrunks]

Just FYI, in case you haven't been following some of the other Paypal threads, you can avoid this delay simply by attaching a credit card (or Visa/MC debit card), even if you don't use it.

Interesting... my bank card also doubles as a credit card now... thanks for the heads up!

[dirge]

The dollar has sunk to 2000's exchange rate against the yen. As someone who buys more TFs from Japan than the USA, I'm not happy. As Sofaman said, the yen is considered a "safe" currency.. ironically the Japanese economy has been sluggish for years while ours is still doing relatively well.

The RBA's rate drop will accelerate this slide, at least until panicked speculators realise that our economy is doing a lot better than those of countries who removed all their banking regulations (USA, Iceland..)

[jaydisc]

Interesting... my bank card also doubles as a credit card now... thanks for the heads up!

That's exactly what I have. Unbeknownst to Paypal, my "credit card" and "bank account" are really the same thing. That way, when I pay, I use the "credit" card and I get my bank's better conversion rate, Visa protections, Paypal loses 2-3% (bonus! ) and when I collect, I just put it back into my bank account.

[k.wong23]

That's exactly what I have. Unbeknownst to Paypal, my "credit card" and "bank account" are really the same thing. That way, when I pay, I use the "credit" card and I get my bank's better conversion rate, Visa protections, Paypal loses 2-3% (bonus! ) and when I collect, I just put it back into my bank account.

Eh? jay so if you pay at robotkingdom, you go through paypal->credit card?

Or you just purely use your 'credit' card at RK?

reason being is that my order the other day from RK (0.72USD/AUD) paypal wouldn't let me instant bank transfer even though I have my bank(credit) card linked. Ended up using an echeque which used a rate of 0.71USD/AUD

[jaydisc]

Eh? jay so if you pay at robotkingdom, you go through paypal->credit card?

Or you just purely use your 'credit' card at RK?

reason being is that my order the other day from RK (0.72USD/AUD) paypal wouldn't let me instant bank transfer even though I have my bank(credit) card linked. Ended up using an echeque which used a rate of 0.71USD/AUD

I use credit card through Paypal. Didn't know you could use card direct. Pretty sure you can't. Also, I change the conversion options (doable after choosing credit card as funding source) to let my card do the conversion which is best because Paypal gouges conversion rates.